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Women dominated in gender-neutral acting categories in the first year of their institution at the Independent Spirit Awards, claiming four statuettes at Saturday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2018s Michelle Yeoh nabbed Best Lead Performance, with her co-star Stephanie Hsu landing the new award of Best Breakthrough Performance. Abbott Elementary\u2018s Quinta Brunson landed Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted series, with The Bear\u2018s Ayo Edebiri landing Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.<\/p>\n
The sole winner on the side of the men in acting categories was Everything Everywhere\u2018s Ke Huy Quan \u2014 an Oscar frontrunner, who here won Best Supporting Performance.<\/p>\n
Film Independent first announced its intention to make its 2023 acting categories gender neutral, across film and television, in August of last year. The ceremony is the latest to go that route, following shows like the Gotham Awards and the Brit Awards.<\/p>\n
A couple of of today\u2019s winners did make mention of the awards show innovation \u2014 including Brunson who admitted, \u201cI kind of like the gender-neutral thing.\u201d Edebiri jokingly exclaimed \u201cSorry!\u201d after noting that she\u2019d been up against her The Bear male co-star Ebon Moss-Bacharach.<\/p>\n
But if the move to gender neutral awards has been a bit of a lightning rod topic in pop culture overall, that was about the extent to which it came up at today\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
Still, Deadline did catch up with a number of nominees ahead of the ceremony, who freely offered up their thoughts \u2014 generally in favor of the award show\u2019s evolution. Elsa Ramos, who exec produced Best International Film winner Joyland, suggested the move is in keeping with the Spirit Awards\u2019 place \u201con the forefront\u201d of diversity and inclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c[The move to gender-neutral categories] feels like an opening and a way just for more voices to have an opportunity,\u201d said Ramo. \u201cJoyland, for us, feels like a part of that story, and it\u2019s been amazing to watch this movie resonate with so many people, and the Spirit Awards embracing that kind of awareness that there\u2019s a much broader way of looking at humanity. It has been great to be a part of that journey, for sure.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Added Ramo\u2019s fellow Joyland EP Tiffany Boyle: \u201cI think it\u2019s important to kind of get behind that initiative. The fact that they\u2019re doing it just speaks to they\u2019re putting their money where their mouth is, effectively. So we\u2019re really thrilled that they\u2019re doing it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Actor Jeff Hiller \u2014 a first-time nominee for his work on HBO\u2019s Somebody Somewhere \u2014 seemed more split on the move. He called the way of grouping nominees \u201cgreat,\u201d opining that \u201cwe shouldn\u2019t define people by gender, which is a construct.\u201d<\/p>\n He did express his concern that this way of divvying up awards might adversely impact \u201ccisgender women\u2026just because of the way that Hollywood is\u201d \u2014 though that certainly didn\u2019t end up being the case today.<\/p>\n Comedian Hasan Minhaj hosted today\u2019s ceremony, which took place as usual in a tent set up adjacent to the Santa Monica Pier. A24\u2019s Everything Everywhere led the way with seven wins.<\/p>\n View this article at Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Independent Spirit Awards\u2019 Acting Categories Dominated By Women As They Go Gender Neutral For First Time: Women dominated in gender-neutral acting categories in the first year of their institution at the Independent Spirit Awards, claiming four statuettes at Saturday\u2019s ceremony. Everything Everywhere All at Once\u2018s Michelle Yeoh nabbed Best Lead Performance, with her co-star Stephanie
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